it

Meanings

1. The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
3. A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
4. An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
5. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
6. Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
7. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
8. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
9. Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
10. Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
11. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
12. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.

1. Its.

1. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
2. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
3. A game of tag.
4. A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
5. Something desirable or suitable.
6. Sexual intercourse.
7. Sex appeal.
8. Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
9. Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).

1. Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.

1. Initialism of information technology.
2. Initialism of inclusive tour.
3. Initialism of intercept-time method.

1. Initialism of intrathecal.

1. Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italy.
2. Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italian (language).

1. A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck.
2. The Id, in Freudian psychology.
3. Alternative letter-case form of it (“desirable quality; quality of being successful, fashionable, in vogue”).

Etymology

From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here; here”). Cognates Cognate with Yola it, t', yt (“it”), North Frisian at, et, 't (“it”), Saterland Frisian et (“it”), West Frisian it (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Luxembourgish hatt (“her, it, she”), Elfdalian eð (“it”); also Primitive Irish ᚕᚑᚔ (koi, “here”), Latin cis (“short of; before”), hic (“this”), Greek εκείνος (ekeínos, “that; those”). Compare Cimbrian es, is, 's, 'z (“it”), German es, 's (“it, there”), Mòcheno and Vilamovian s (“it”), Yiddish עס (es, “it”), Faroese ið (“that, which, who”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), which instead descends from Proto-Germanic *it (“it”). More at he.

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